ghc-5.02.3: fatal error: getStablePtr: too light

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Thu Sep 5 04:48:29 EDT 2002


> I'm sporadically seeing the following error:
> 
> ghc-5.02.3: fatal error: getStablePtr: too light
> 
> Any ideas what it means or how to avoid it?
> 
> I'm running on Linux.

This is fixed in 5.04.  I believe it was triggered by making too many
stable pointers to the same object.

Cheers,
	Simon



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